[Yaesu] FT-980 battery back up problem

[Rob Atkinson]

how does using a wall wart get you anywhere.   IOW, if the AC service goes
out on you, your stored data in the rig flies away.  It seems that doing
away with a battery backup defeats the purpose of the backup.

73

Rob
K5UJ

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:50 PM, David Thompson <thompson at mindspring.com>wrote:

> Gang,
>
> All this talk about old Yaesu's like the FT-One got me into finally
> aligning
> my newest FT-980.  Everthing went OK until I started putting back on the
> bottom case.
>
> The battery back up is by two AA batteries and I have three FT-980's and
> have never had a problem with the battery back up (except for the chore of
> replacing them every 6 months or so).  Well today
> I put the bottom case back and was aligning all the holes (not easy) when
> the battery clip and bottom battery case fell out and the wires broke.  I
> re-attached and soldered the wires and get just short of 3 V DC.  I enter a
> couple of memories which I use for splits and then turned off the power and
> after a few minutes turned it back on and the memories are no longer be
> saved.
>
> Any ideas why not?  Batteries are Ok.  I looked and the wires are still
> firmly attached and soldered
> inside the rig.  I checked one of the other 980's (which works) and
> everything looks the same.
>
> I am planning to find a 3 V DC wall wart to save changing batteries.  But
> does anyone have any ideas???  The memories save so long as the power is on
> but go away when turned off.
>
> 73 Dave K4JRB
>
>
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